On Sat, Apr 2, 2016 at 11:59 AM, Cary Lewis wrote: > I need to start acrobat from a bash shell. > > Acrobat needs some of its parameters to be enclosed with double > quotes. This is needed to automatically open and print a pdf. > > > If I try to do a \", then it passes the \" to the windows app.
I frequently use WinMerge, a graphical text file comparision program, from the bash shell. Occasionally this involves a file in the current directory vs a file at the end of a path full of spaces and slashes. If this question had come up yesterday I could have looked at my history for examples. My recollection is that the rules for expanding arguments enclosed in single quotes are helpful. Single-quoted arguments are processed much less by bash than even double-quoted arguments. A simple example is if you need to put a backslash in an environment variable, you don't have as many layers to fight if you use single quotes export regex='search\$'. I also use $(cygpath) in some fashion to convert the path since WinMerge is not a Cygwin program. I get the full path to one of the files using tab completion, and then I modify the path by surrounding it with the necessary cygpath syntax to convert the path to a Windows path. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
